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I caught 2 more NC Piedmont locale worm snakes, here's all three I've got on hand right now

Closeup of # 2, about 10" long

Here's a closeup of number 3

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1.0 Western green toad
1.1 green treefrogs
1.0 Florida blue garter snake
1.1 Oriental fire-bellied toads
1.0 American bullfrog
0.1 Spanish ribbed newt
0.0.1 Eastern ribbon snake
1.1 red-cheeked mud turtles
0.1 Dubia day gecko
1.0 Sonoran gopher snake
1.1 rough green snakes
1.1 giant African black millipedes
1.0 Okeetee corn snake
0.1 Albino African clawed frog
1.0 Kenyan sand boa
0.0.1 Argentine flame-bellied toadlet
0.0.1 African bullfrog
1.0 yellow * Everglades rat snake intergrade
1.1 Western hognose snakes
1.2 fire salamanders
1.1 scarlet kingsnakes
0.0.1 scarlet snake
0.0.1 Argentine horned frog
1.1 Southern ringneck snakes
0.0.1 night snake
0.0.1 Florida brown snake
1.0 rough earth snake
0.1 Northern brown snake
COMING SOON: Western worm snakes, Midwestern worm snakes and West/ Midwest intergrades, more Brahminy blind snakes!

Those are neat. I imagine as soon as you put them in a terrarium they dig in and never surface?
They would look neat in like A giant ant farm type of tank.

They're not THAT burrowing. I guess if you give them nice loose soil or potting mix 4-6 inches deep they will use it, but it is hard to keep it from compacting.

I usually encounter them between the leaf litter layer and the top of the soil, although they are just on the surface under a board usually, but I have dug them up from deeper.

Mine have an inch or two of regular lizard litter jungle mix mulch to burrow in, and they are usually buried but sometimes visible.

They do fine as long as it is moist enough for a worm to survive in but not wet (they will get blister disease), but I usually don't keep them around long term as they are not as fun to me as other snakes.

Oh for some reason when I see them I think of ant farms lol.

I saw a diagram for a giant "ant farm" today in a tarantula book (no I don't have one, but it's the time of year for those giant NC wolf spiders, so I was researching)- basically a terrarium about 2 feet tall, 2 feet wide, and only 1.5 to 2.5 inches thick, filled almost to the top with dirt, so you can see the tarantula's burrow. That would work well for the worm snakes, wouldn't have to be that deep, though!

Lol I think I may have gotten the idea from a tarantula site. I have a Green bottle blue and Mex red leg (each in 10 gallon tank) Pet store I go to has jumbo ant farms .
I think of worm snakes when I see it but its a bit to narrow for them.